Time Left - 10:00 mins

Verbal Ability Practice #6

Attempt now to get your rank among 1010 students!

Question 1

In each of the following sentences, a part of the sentence is underlined. Beneath each sentence, four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best alternative from among the four.
On your visit to the great estuary, you tend to question how they lived here at all, given to them the clouds of mosquitoes, the snakes and the sweltering summertime heat.

Question 2

All of the following sentences A, B, C and D are taken from a same passage and jumbled up. But one of them is incoherent. Find the incoherent statement.
Sachin did not ask for this honour.
A. There are consolation prizes which console, and some which char the soul.
B. I am not suggesting we write a condolence letter, but sympathy is certainly due to Sachin.
C. Membership of Parliament is a handsome freebie for Sachin Tendulkar.
D. Nomination to the Rajya Sabha is a pretty desultory substitute for someone who has been promised the Bharat Ratna.
Delhi‘s politicians, ever eager to climb a bandwagon, led the clamour for Sachin’s elevation to jewel of India after he got his 99th international hundred.

Incoherent statement is:

Question 3

Direction (9-31): Given below is a collection of statements, broken down into fragments.